GSA Leadership Talks Priorities and Future of Trump-Era Initiatives Rena Schild/Shutterstock.com
email February 12, 2021
The General Services Administration’s acting administrator and commissioner of the acquisition division discuss its technology programs, the beta.SAM migration, D-U-N-S transition, SolarWinds and more.
A new set of leaders have taken their places at the General Services Administration, the agency responsible for managing federal property, providing acquisition resources to other agencies and, in recent years, offering technology assistance for a fee.
As these new leaders settle in, they’re getting acquainted with a slew of Trump-era programs and priority decisions. Acting GSA Administrator Katy Kale and new Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Sonny Hashmi familiar faces from the Obama administration spoke with
How Forward-Thinking Investments Will Build the Future of Digital Government PureSolution/Shutterstock.com
email By Jeremy M. Goldberg | February 5, 2021
Long-awaited investment in government technology is finally here in the United States and now we must act. President Joe Biden recently announced his administration’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, and technologists rightly lauded his inclusion of $10 billion to modernize state systems and networks, improve cybersecurity, and fund the Technology Transformation Services. This acknowledges that governments are facing an unprecedented need to expand their digital and virtual services due to COVID-19.
The pandemic continues to create immediate demands for services, raises the government’s technology risk profile, and changes long-term expectations for how government interacts with and delivers services. To make the most of the momentum for change that’s now he
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The hashtag #BidenLied exploded on Twitter over the weekend
It came after the Democratic Party posted a tweet outlining Biden s plan to distribute $1,400 stimulus checks, on top of the $600 already approved
Critics expressed outrage at the size of the forthcoming checks and claimed that Biden previously promised to deliver $2,000 checks
But in reality Biden never made that promise, instead saying that he would add on to the original $600 checks for a total of $2,000
Democrats pledge to push Biden s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue plan through Congress without Republican support despite president s bid for unity
Biden s plan will unleash $400 billion to expand vaccinations and to reopen schools, $1,400 direct payments to households, and other priorities
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are laying the groundwork to start the go-it-alone approach as soon as next week
Democrats said the stubbornly high unemployment numbers and battered U.S. economy leave them unwilling to waste time courting Republican support
Biden has been appealing directly to Republican and Democratic lawmakers while signaling his priority to press ahead